PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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signee, and shall bear a certificate showing that 
the contents have been inspected by the United 
States Department of Agriculture and found to be 
free from moth infestation. 
(2) Carload and other bulk shipments of plants 
and plant products for which inspection is re- 
quired by these regulations shall not be trans- 
ported or offered for transportation interstate by 
cars, boats, and other vehicles, unless each ship- 
ment is accompanied by a certificate showing that 
the plants and plant products have been inspected 
by the United States Department of Agriculture 
and pronounced to be free from moth infestation. 
The inspection certificates shall accompany the 
waybills, conductors’ manifests, memoranda, or 
bills of lading pertaining to such shipments made 
by cars or boats. 
(3) Certificates of inspection will issue only 
for plants and plant products which have been 
actually inspected by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and the use of such certifi- 
cates in connection with plants and plant products 
which have not been so inspected is prohibited. 
(4) Where inspection and certification are re- 
quired by these regulations, inspection and certifi- 
cation by an inspector or other agent of the Fed- 
eral Horticultural Board are meant, and such in- 
spection nad certification will be furnished without 
the payment of fees or charges ot any nature. 
(5) Plants and plant products, of which the 
interstate movement is prohibited or restricted by 
these regulations and which are grown outside the 
areas quarantined for the gipsy moth or the brown- 
tail moth, may be shipped interstate from points 
within the quarantined areas to points outside the 
quarantined areas under permit from the Secretary 
of Agriculture. Permits will issue only for plants 
and plant products which are not infested with 
the gipsy moth or brown-tail moth and transpor- 
tation companies shall not accept or move inter- 
state from within the quarantined areas such 
plants and plant products grown outside the quar- 
antined areas, unless each shipment is accompanied 
by a permit issued by the superintendent of moth 
work at Boston, Mass. 
Blanks on which to make application for in- 
spection or for permits will be furnished upon 
request by the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, Bureau of Entomology, 43 Tremont street, 
Boston, Mass. 
(6) Persons intending to move or allow to be 
moved interestate plants and plant products for 
which certificates of inspection or permits are re- 
quired by these regulations, will make application 
therefor as far as possible in advance of the prob- 
able date of shipment. Applications should show 
the nature and quantity of the plants or plant 
products it is proposed to move, together with 
their exact location and, if practicable, the con- 
templated date of shipment. Applicants for in- 
spection will be required to place the articles to 
be inspected so that they can be readily examined. 
If not so placed inspection will be refused. 
(7) The interstate movement of all classes of 
plants and plant products entirely within the area 
quarantined for the gipsy moth and the brown-tail 
moth will be permitted without restrictions, other 
than those which may be imposed by State ofticals 
at points of destination. 
On and after August 1, 1013, and until further 
notice, by virture of said section 8 of the act of 
Congress approved August 20, 1912, it shall be 
unlawful to move in interstate commerce any of 
the above-described plants or plant products from 
the area herein quarantined, except in accordance 
with these regulations and amendments thereto. 
This Notice of Quarantine amends and super- 
sedes Notice of Quarantine No. 4, promulgated 
November 5, 1012. and shall be effective until 
otherwise ordered. 
HINTS ON LAWN-MAKING IN ST. LOUIS 
From Bulletin of Missouri Botanical Garden. 
The ideal soil for lawn grasses is one 
which, while remaining moist, never be- 
comes saturated with water. Thus a clay 
or sandy loam, with a clay subsoil, is much 
better adapted to the purpose than a light, 
loose soil, which dries out rapidly. Un- 
fortunately, the land around a new house 
is not usually well adapted for a lawn, 
owing to its being mixed with the subsoil 
which has come from the excavation, or 
the undesirable earth which is hauled in 
for grading. It is often necessary, there- 
fore, to spend a year or more in getting 
the earth into proper condition before 
seeding it for a permanent lawn. 
PREPARATION OF THE SOIL. 
In making a lawn for the first time on 
light, sandy, soil, two or three inches of 
clay incorporated with the first four to six 
inches of sand will be of the greatest ben- 
efit. Stable manure at the rate of twenty 
to thirty loads per acre will assist in fur- 
nishing the necessary humus, and if a crop 
of legumes, such as cow-peas, can be 
grown and then turned under, the bene- 
ficial result will more than pay for the 
delay and expense. 
Practically all lawn grasses prefer an 
alkaline soil, and in St. Louis, where, 
owing to the smoke, the tendency of the 
soil is to become acid, it is particularly de- 
sirable to add some form of lime. Air- 
slaked lime at the rate of from one-half 
to a ton per acre may be used, or there are 
certain advantages in applying a crushed 
limestone rock at about double the propor- 
tions employed for air-slaked lime. The 
rock remains available in the soil much 
longer, and under ordinary circumstances 
gives up a sufficient amount of alkali to 
maintain the desired condition. Hard- 
wood ashes at the rate of a ton to the 
acre are sometimes used with good effect, 
as they assist materially in correcting the 
acidity of the soil. Raw crushed bone, 500 
pounds or more to the acre, may be used 
in the original preparation for a lawn, and 
the usual combinations of chemical fer- 
tilizers are all useful. Stable manure is, 
for light soils, greatly superior to chemical 
fertilizers, since it not only adds a suf- 
ficient amount of plant food, but likewise 
improves the texture and water- retaining 
capacity of the soil. It should be borne 
in mind that it is impossible to get a soil 
too good for a lawn, and that there is 
every necessity for taking great pains at 
first, since the grass is to be a permanent 
crop. 
WHAT SEED TO SOW. 
The ideal grass for a lawn should have 
a creeping underground stem with short 
joints, producing long, narrow leaves in 
abundance, making a close turf. In addi- 
tion, the color should be pleasing and per- 
manent, that is, not changing radically 
through the season, and the more drought- 
resistant it is, the better. In addition, it 
must stand repeated cutting and should be 
adapted to as large a variety of soils as 
possible. Kentucky blue grass ( Poa pra- 
tensis ) , not Canadian blue grass ( Poa 
compressa ) , undoubtedly comes nearer to 
this ideal than any other single grass, and 
for this reason it forms a part of prac- 
tically all the mixtures used for the pur- 
pose under discussion. Unfortunately, blue 
grass does not stand well the summers of 
St. Louis, and it is a fact not generally rec- 
ognized that a good lawn from this grass 
alone cannot be obtained under three or 
four years. It has been a much-debated 
question whether blue grass should be 
sown with other grasses or not, but in this 
locality there can be but one answer, 
namely, that some mixture combining sev- 
eral of the standard grasses is far prefer- 
able to blue grass alone. It must be ad- 
mitted at once, however, that there is no 
such thing as a perfect universal lawn mix- 
ture. The conditions under which grass 
has to grow in different localities and the 
varying tastes of individuals has resulted 
in a number of formulas being suggested 
which may or may not prove successful 
when used by different planters. Blue 
grass not only requires several years in 
which to become thoroughly established, 
but it does not grow as closely to the 
ground as some other varieties, and in or- 
der to have a green lawn as soon as pos- 
sible it is absolutely necessary to use a 
combination of seed. Furthermore, it is a 
fact that a thicker growth can be obtained 
from a given area where several kinds of 
grasses are growing than where one is 
alone. 
A mixture which has been widely used 
and which, under favorable conditions, 
gives satisfactory results, is the follow- 
ing: 
Fancy Kentucky blue grass 50% 
Fancy red top ( Agrostis alba var. vul- 
garis) 20% 
Rhode Island bent ( Agrostis canina) . . 15% 
English rye ( Lolium perenne var. 
tenue ) 15% 
Such a mixture should be planted at 
about the rate of one pound to every four 
hundred square feet, or one hundred 
pounds (five bushels) to the acre. 
English rye starts almost as soon as 
sown, and in a month or six weeks will 
present a uniform green appearance. It is 
not a long-lived grass, and will be oblit- 
erated during the second season, but is 
worth while on account of the immediate 
and satisfactory results obtained. The red 
top stands hot weather well, grows rapidly 
and is not easily killed out. Rhode Island 
bent is the basis of the famous Newport 
lawns and makes a strong turf which will 
stand tramping well. It also acts as an 
admirable “nurse” to the blue grass. 
Tastes differ as to the desirability of 
white clover ( Trifolium repens, var. per- 
enne) in a lawn. Some think it adds to 
the beauty of a greensward, and others 
strongly object to its appearance, consid- 
ering it out of place. In its favor it may 
be said that white clover produces a dense, 
quick growth, and will often make a green 
covering where grass seed fails. It will 
